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Wolska Dąbrowa – November 24, 2016

At the burial place of about 180 Jews – the prisoners of a former German labor camp in Wolska Dąbrowa – the Lasting Memory Foundation set up a memorial stone. The unveiling ceremony was attended by the youth from local schools and from Israel, local authorities, clergy and residents of Wolska Dąbrowa and the area.

In Kaplonosy Kolonia, the Lasting Memory Foundation located and commemorated a burial place of approximately 70 Jews – men, women and children – murdered in 1943. Next to the grave we set up a memorial stone where the students from local schools, local authorities, clergy and residents gathered. The participants paid tribute to the dead with songs, poems and prayers.

A meeting with the youth from the town of Giwatajim in Israel took place in Warsaw. Zbigniew Niziński delivered a presentation regarding the Foundation’s actions for commemorating the people and places from the times of the Holocaust. The participants got acquainted with the stories of Poles and Jews at the time of the war as well as the actions of searching for the graves of the war victims and marking them with memorial stones.

At the initiative of the Lasting Memory Foundation, in the woods in Rozwadówka next to the burial place of 9 Jews executed by the Germans on 15 December 1941, there took place the ceremony of unveiling a memorial stone. The ceremony was attended by the residents of Rozwadówka, students from schools in Sosnówka and Motwica, the youth from Rishon Le-Zion in Israel as well as other guests.

In the School Complex in Sosnówka, Zbigniew Niziński delivered a lecture and held a meeting with a 90-year-old witness to history, Mr. Józef. The teachers and students heard the stories of the lives of 20 Jewish families who had lived in the nearby town of Rozwadówka before the war. The participants learned about the events of December 1941 when the Germans in Sosnówka executed 7 Poles who were held hostage and 10 hostages in Rozwadówka, including 9 Jews.